[JMS] Grinding crystals? Is an acid etch possible?

[Don Buska]

Now we just need to experiment.  Thanks Peter for emailing the grinding 
papers.  Also I see there is a great deal of information out there if 
you do a Google search.  Including better details on doing the edge 
grinding to get the crystals to oscillate again or to improve their 
oscillating strength.

WA4GAL has a nice website where he wrote up his experimentation with 
crystal grinding in a daily journal form.  Great reading. 
http://home.netcom.com/~wa4qal/crystal.htm

Have fun

Don N9OO



Sherrill Watkins wrote:
> Friends: Perhaps an easier way would be to simply immerse the crystal blank
> in a strong acid solution, such as hydrocloric or sulfluric acid?  That
> should remove the quartz material in a uniform rate from both sides of the
> blank?  That is unless the quartz blank is inert to the acid? - Sherrill
> k4own 
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